‘I’ll only bare my soul’

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She posed for men’s magazines, yet is insecure about her body. She produced an angst-ridden and bestselling album only to fall into a yawning depression. Can her new film, Johnny English, keep Natalie Imbruglia laughing?

THE cruellest review that Rowan Atkinson can ever have got came near the beginning of his career, when a critic asked if it was technically possible for a comedian to lack a sense of humour. The rubbery-faced Oxford graduate and HGV driver has been dividing audiences ever since, although most people find at least some things he does amusing: if not Mr Bean then Blackadder, or those credit-card ads in which he played an incompetent M15 officer. Fans of the last will enjoy Johnny English, a feature film based on the character. I laughed.